Following is the most recent roundup of Wake Forest University School of Law’s faculty research, publications, presentations, honors and awards.

Carol Anderson

Appointments

Named Founding Academic Fellow of the Pound Civil Justice Institute, a national legal “think tank” created by trial lawyers. This new Fellow category was created to help the Pound Foundation reach out to and collaborate with members of the academic community in the U.S. who have special expertise in areas of interest to the Institute.

Presentations

Webinar for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy based on her book, “Inside Juror’s Minds: The Hierarchy of Juror Decision-Making.”

Filmed a series of short videos on various topics in trial advocacy to be widely distributed on the web, starting with WFU Law Alumni. (Forthcoming Spring 2014)

Publications

Wrote forward for the Japanese translation of “Inside Juror’s Minds: The Hierarchy of Juror Decision-Making.” (Forthcoming March 2014)

Johnathan Cardi

Presentations

“A Framework for Understanding Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress, ” Conference on Attribution and Apportionment of Responsibility in Tort Cases, University of Sydney, Australia (December 2013)

“Duty as an Element in Title VII Claims?” Conference on Tort Conceptions in Employment Discrimination Law, Ohio State University (November 2013)

Projects

The Incoherence of the Common Law (with Albert Yoon). This article explores the dysfunction incoherence of common-law development and application

Appointed Dean of the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (December 2013)

Michael K. Curtis

Presentations

Wake Forest Law Chapter of the American Constitution Society on the use of race as a tool to disrupt biracial or multiracial coalitions in North Carolina 1868-1905 and in the 2011 North Carolina redistricting of state legislative and congressional seats (Feb. 5, 2014)

Publications

Chapter, “Lincoln and Executive Power During the Civil War, A Case Study,” Extra Legal Power and Legitimacy, Oxford Press (2013)

Chaired meeting of the Contracts Drafting Committee of National Conference of Bar Examiners (September 2013)

Presentations

“Current Legal Developments in College Athletics” at conference, Current Legal Business Issues Affecting Collegiate, Olympic and International Sports, Marquette University School of Law, Milwaukee, Wis. (October 2013)

Writing That Works (bi-monthly column) North Carolina Lawyer (published by the North Carolina Bar Association): Citation Refresher, Part 2 (February 2014); A Citation Refresher: Back to the Basics (November 2013); and Dashes & Hyphens: Rules for the Discriminating Writer (May 2013)

Michael Green

Presentations

“Daubert and Sufficiency” at conference, “Perspectives on Mass Torts Litigation” at Widener School of Law (February 2013)

“Tort Law to the Rescue” at conference, “Functional or Dysfunctional- the Law as a Cure? Risk and Liability in the Financial Markets,” University of Stockholm (August 2013)

“A Comparative Assessment of Product Liability Laws,” at the inaugural meeting of the World Tort Society, Harbin, China, (September 2013)

Lectured on, “Toxic Torts” at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, and at Fujian Normal University in Fuzhou, China (September 2013)

“The Human Rights Basis for the Environmental Pillar of Sustainable Development,” Sixth Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Sustainable Development, United Nations, New York. (December 12, 2013)

“Access Rights as Human Rights,” Meeting of the Negotiators of an Agreement on Environmental Access rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, Lima, Peru, (Oct. 31, 2013)

“The Role of Courts in the Response to Climate Change,” King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, (Oct. 25, 2013)

Supervised arguments by 3Ls in the appellate Advocacy Clinic. The clinic had its first ever oral arguments at the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta (Jan. 17, 2013) and a second oral argument at the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va. (Jan. 28, 2013)

Supervised National Moot Court team during national finals in N.Y. (Feb. 10-13, 2014)

Will argue one of the Appellate Clinic’s appeals ”CTS Corporation v. Waldburger” in the Supreme Court (April 23, 2014)

Founder, Forsyth Backpack Program. Organized and raised funds for non-profit agency supporting and sharing best practices for 24 Backpack programs in Forsyth County, North Carolina which provide supplemental food to hungry children attending local public schools

Quoted by Robert Lopez, “Lawsuits Over North Carolina Voting Law Head to Court,” Greensboro News & Record, (Oct. 31, 2013)

Presentations

Presenter, “Group Diversity, Group Equality, and Group Democracy,” Half-Baked Ideas Discussion, Faculty Workshop, Wake Forest School of Law (September 2013)

Presenter, “What Do Constitutional Lawyers Do … For a Living?” Career Day Panel, Whitaker Elementary School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (September 2013)

Presenter, “Are There Any Intellectual Justifications for Voter ID Laws?” Second Annual Local Government Works-in-Progress Conference, Chapman University School of Law, Orange, California (October 2013)

Attendee, “The Right to Vote: From Reynolds v. Sims to Shelby County v. Holder and Beyond,” Section on Legislation and Law of the Political Process, American Association of Law Schools, New York, New York (January 2014)

Presenter, “The Appearance of Corruption and the Anti-Corruption Principle,” Symposium on the “Future of Campaign Finance Reform,” Duke University Law School, Durham, North Carolina (February 2014)

Presenter, “The Consequences of Constitutional Choices,” in Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe (Politics 232), Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest College (February 2014)

“The Myth of the Disinterested American Voter” (Reviewing IIya Somin’s book, “Democracy and Political Ignorance”) (Forthcoming)

Kate Mewhinney

Activities

Kate Mewhinney and the staff of the Elder Law Clinic reopened the program at the law school. The clinic was previously located at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. For more information about the students’ representation of older adults during about the fall semester, see the latest newsletter. The relocation was the subject of an article in the Winston-Salem Journal as well as an editorial. (August, 2013)

Blake D. Morant

Appointments

Elected as President-Elect for American Association of Law Schools (AALS) (January 2014)

Paper entitled, “Contractual Interpretation in the Commercial Context: The Case for Fairness for the Small Business Industry” at the Transatlantic Perspectives on Commercial Contract Law II Conference, Edinburgh Law School, Scotland. (August 2013)

“Educating Lawyers in the 21st Century,” High Point Bar Association, (Feb. 5, 2014)

Team-teaching a class with Jessica Magnus (Associate Professor of Management, UNCW) on HR Policy/Practice & Business Torts. The class comprises second-year UNCW PMBA students and third-year Wake Forest law students who will attend the class using WebEx.

“Implicit Bias : Moral Responsibility and Legal Liability” Wake Forest Law Review Symposium on Law as Violence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, Wake Forest Universtiy School of Law (April 11, 2014)

“Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Quest for Racial Justice,” Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review Symposium on The Ghosts of 1964: Race and gender Inequity Fifty Years Later, Universtiy of Alabama School of Law (April 5, 2014)

“Witnessing and Testifying: Hazing in BGLOs and What it Tells Us,” Fraternal Law Confernce (Nov. 9, 2013)

Local Admirality Rules Committee, U.S District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina

Presentations

Chair of Panel, “Oceans Law and the Practitioner;” presented paper, “The Interface of Admirality Law and International Law, ” International Law Association (American Branch) annual meeting, N.Y, (Oct. 25, 2013)